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before (10), 400 yards further on. From this ash, the usual 
hedge-tree of the distriot, four branches were torn, the largest 
being 39 ft. long and 1 f ft. in diameter. At the road beyond, 
two ashes, 40 yards apart, (14) were untouched, a few boughs 
being torn from an oak in the opposite hedge, between them. 
The first tree uprooted was in the next hedge, (16), a fine, 
sound ash, ft. across. 
An unsound ash (22), a little further on, was snapped across, 
though 3 ft. thick. Next the gardener’s greenhouse and cottage, 
attached to the Archbishop’s grounds, were reached. The 
former lost a chimney, the latter a few tiles. The gardener 
was just outside behind his house ; so deafening was the roar 
that he did not hear the crash of falling trees in the grounds 
across the road, among them two splendid elms (26), both 
uprooted, though a plane tree, touching the southern one, was 
untouched. He had noticed that the wind was rising some five 
minutes before, and there had already been some strong gusts. 
Passing next along the river reach, no damage was done on 
the south bank, until a row of large elms (38, 39, 40) was 
reached and three or four were uprooted, including one 4 ft. in 
diameter and 80 ft. high. Some rooks were killed among the 
branches, not having time to fly out and escape. Captain Key, 
of Pose Hall, and his foreman were sheltering in a hut not 100 
yards away, but the terriflc roar entirely drowned the crash of 
falling trees. 
As the other bank of the Ouse was also affected, the width 
from here to the river-bend must have been at least 250 yards. 
Here it passed over Pose Hall, removing its south-east chimney 
and a few tiles. This and its group of farm-buildings and 
cottages were the only houses, besides the cottage already 
mentioned, along the whole four miles. The villages of 
Bishopthorpe, Fulford and Heslington all lie within 200 or 
300 yards. Behind Pose Hall much havoc was done in the 
farm-yard ; more tiles Avere displaced and many stacks (49) 
were upset and scattered, whilst others among these escaped 
quite scatheless. A large and new Dutch barn (51) was upset 
over a hedge, its legs being left elevated in the air. A barge 
(17) had stout mooriugs snapped “as if they were cords ” and 
